Movin' on up, to the 5

Matt Snow · Oct 13, 2006

(sung to the Jefferson's theme)

So now we (Adobe, Inc) have a 5d. I'm their internal photographer. Just picked it up this morning. I have been using our 20d for some time now, so pretty excited.

Got the 24-105 and 17-40 for starters, but also want to get a fixed for portraits. Any recommendations for that?

Gotta scour the 5d threads now for tips and tricks!!!!

Matt

Barugon · Oct 13, 2006

Matt Snow said:
(sung to the Jefferson's theme)

So now we (Adobe, Inc) have a 5d. I'm their internal photographer.
Just picked it up this morning. I have been using our 20d for some
time now, so pretty excited.

Got the 24-105 and 17-40 for starters, but also want to get a fixed
for portraits. Any recommendations for that?

Gotta scour the 5d threads now for tips and tricks!!!!

Why don't you guys ever make software for Linux?

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Matt Snow · Oct 13, 2006

Market share? Just a guess.

Donald Wong · Oct 13, 2006

Now you'll get a bunch of schmoes asking you Adode questions, like when will CS3 come out. So when does will it come out?

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lossy · Oct 13, 2006

Oh dear.....

I will try to stear this back to a discussion about lenses.

For portrait on the 5D there are a number of choices,

85 f1.8 USM
85 f1.2 L USM
135 f2 L USM
100 f2 USM

All excellent lenses! (might be some I havnt mentioned here)

You just have to decide which are long or short enough for your type of portraiture. I suppose framing with the 24-105 will give you a good idea of which FL you like.

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Eric Sorensen · Oct 13, 2006

Just kidding, Matt. Have fun with your camera - do you get to keep it with you all the time?
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Barugon · Oct 13, 2006

Matt Snow said:
Market share? Just a guess.

Well, it's a good thing I've got it covered.

As for a portrait lens: The 85L and 135L are both excellent. Other good choices are the 85 f/1.8, 100 f/2 or just about any of the many available macro lenses.

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jackkurtz · Oct 13, 2006

The lenses lossy mentions would be my choices.

In order: 85 1.2, 135 f2, 100 f2 85 1.8. Oddly enough it is also in order from most expensive to least expensive.

Not to press the issue or anything, but what about the final version of Lightroom? How much will it cost?

thanks.

jack
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Eric Sorensen · Oct 13, 2006

...for portraits. I would hightly recommend that lens - it is a real good value.
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KEG · Oct 13, 2006

Memory Settings for Version Cue, I am running Version Cue on server with 3 GIGS of ram, I have allocated 512 MBs to it but I am getting out of memory.

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Matt Snow · Oct 13, 2006

Sorry, I can't say when any of our products will be released, as I'm sure you can understand. CS3 will be the biggest software release in history, that much I can say. I can't wait, personally!

I also don't use Version Cue, so can't relate to that question.

Thanks for the lens suggestions!

m.

Donald Wong · Oct 13, 2006

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Savas Kyprianides · Oct 13, 2006

It's really John Warnock logging in under an assumed name.

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